The question was only sci-fi in "Cities in Flight" by James Blish as that story featured anti-agathic drugs to prevent aging, etc. It's worthwhile reading in its exploration of just what happens if people are nearly immortal.
Such things are not so far off as there are nanobots, little machines that move through the blood stream to fix stuff. That sounds like sci-fi as well but experimental trials of at least one type of nanobot have taken place already. The reason this is interesting is what we're seeing right now are the Wright Brothers nanobots. They seem so sci-fi at the moment but maybe not even as much as fifty years from now these things will be a normal part of medicine and doing things we would now consider magic.
There's strong reason to believe your kids and maybe even you will be able to exercise a powerful choice in how long you live. For any young person who still smokes, know well it may not be simply the nursing home part of life you're throwing away, it may be one hell of a lot more than that. (It's more than you realize anyway but it may soon be one hell of a lot more.)
It's not that the People of the Future come to whisper things in my ear when I find some welfare weed although it is cool when they do that. I don't even see much clairvoyance needed to see what these nanobots will do. For example, one of the street wisdoms about cancer is that the surgery opens it up to oxygen and it will start a forest fire. However, nanobots won't cut you up. These machines operate almost at a cellular level so they take the fight straight to the cancer.
Note: welfare weed isn't the reefer paid by the state but rather from when someone chucks some my way.
Nanobots also have the potential for constructive surgery. Why should they not be able to rebuild things, in effect, patching potholes in blood vessels, etc. The cool part is that there are people far beyond my vision and they're seeing it right now. There is enough rustling about their activity in the pop science press to make it clear something explosively interesting will be happening in the relatively near future.
Tip: optimists live longer and there's science to prove it.
Such things are not so far off as there are nanobots, little machines that move through the blood stream to fix stuff. That sounds like sci-fi as well but experimental trials of at least one type of nanobot have taken place already. The reason this is interesting is what we're seeing right now are the Wright Brothers nanobots. They seem so sci-fi at the moment but maybe not even as much as fifty years from now these things will be a normal part of medicine and doing things we would now consider magic.
There's strong reason to believe your kids and maybe even you will be able to exercise a powerful choice in how long you live. For any young person who still smokes, know well it may not be simply the nursing home part of life you're throwing away, it may be one hell of a lot more than that. (It's more than you realize anyway but it may soon be one hell of a lot more.)
It's not that the People of the Future come to whisper things in my ear when I find some welfare weed although it is cool when they do that. I don't even see much clairvoyance needed to see what these nanobots will do. For example, one of the street wisdoms about cancer is that the surgery opens it up to oxygen and it will start a forest fire. However, nanobots won't cut you up. These machines operate almost at a cellular level so they take the fight straight to the cancer.
Note: welfare weed isn't the reefer paid by the state but rather from when someone chucks some my way.
Nanobots also have the potential for constructive surgery. Why should they not be able to rebuild things, in effect, patching potholes in blood vessels, etc. The cool part is that there are people far beyond my vision and they're seeing it right now. There is enough rustling about their activity in the pop science press to make it clear something explosively interesting will be happening in the relatively near future.
Tip: optimists live longer and there's science to prove it.
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